According to the Debian Policy Manual: This [Recommends] declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency. The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations.
Source: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch- relationships.html#s-binarydeps Packages should avoid being listed as dependencies unless they are essential for installing/running the application. Therefore, as Nick Ellery said, texlive-latex-extra should be in recommends. As of Ubuntu Intrepid (to become 8.10), the recommends field of a package is automatically installed like a dependency, but APT will not complain about unsatisfied recommends on your system. However, as this package is maintained by Debian (and to allow future syncs), the changes should be submitted upstream to Debian. This bug report needs forwarding upstream. Once Debian adds texlive-latex-extra to recommends, the packaged can be synced. ** Also affects: lyx (Debian) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: lyx (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Triaged -- LyX should depend on texlive-latex-extra https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271994 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
